Ray Bradbury
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Language
English
Description
The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant
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English
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Description
For more than sixty years, the imagination of Ray Bradbury has opened doors into remarkable places, ushering us across unexplored territories of the heart and mind while leading us inexorably toward a profound understanding of ourselves and the universe we inhabit. In this landmark volume, America's preeminent storyteller offers us one hundred treasures from a lifetime of words and ideas -- tales that amaze, enthrall, and horrify; breathtaking journeys...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts — Moby Dick — in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.
But from the moment he sets foot on Irish soil, the author embarks on an unexpected odyssey. Meet congenial IRA terrorists, tippling
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Series
Everyman's library volume 326
Language
English
Description
The Stories of Ray Bradbury--a hundred of his best stories, selected by the author himself--is the definitive collection of one of the greatest fantasists the world has ever known. Published in 1980, the volume contains stories selected from the first four decades of Bradbury's career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1988, ©1982
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
12) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
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Language
English
Description
Two drifters caught in the backwash of space wander from city to dead city, sifting the rubble for the fabled Blue Bottle of Mars-and find in it two different, equally entrancing, dooms ... A young boy in Green Town, Illinois, does not marry-yet marries-his beloved eighth-grade teacher ... In the hell of a Manhattan July night, Will Morgan is offered a possibly Mephistophelean proposal by which he might gain a perfect love and a magical immunity ......
Author
Language
English
Description
Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called...
16) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Publisher
Biblioteca Azul
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
2 edição.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
Portuguese
Description
Guy Montag é um bombeiro. Dele emprego consiste em destruir livros proibidos e as casas onde esses livros estão escondidos. Ele nunca questiona a destruição causada, e no final do dia regressa para a sua vida apática com a esposa, Mildred, que passa o dia imersa na sua televisão. Um dia, Montag conhece a sua excêntrica vizinha Clarisse e é como se um sopro de vida o despertasse para o mundo. Ela apresenta-o a um passado onde as pessoas viviam...
Author
Series
Bantam sixty volume H3357
Language
English
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Description
Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales--prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry, which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherworldly portraits of outré fascination which spring from...
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 148 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As could only occur with Bradbury's full cooperation in this authorized adaptation, Hamilton has created a striking work of art that uniquely captures Montag's awakening to the evil of government-controlled thought and the inestimable value of philosophy, theology, and literature. --from publisher description
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 151 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
The Earthmen came by the handful, then the hundreds, then the millions. They swept aside the majestic, dying Martian civilization to build their homes, shopping malls, and cities. Mars began as a place of boundless hopes and dreams, a planet to replace an Earth sinking into waste and war. It became a canvas for mankind's follies and darkest desires. Ultimately, the Earthmen who came to conquer the red-gold planet awoke to discover themselves conquered...
